I went online and saw this
ugly dog picture on the screen of MSN. Apparently the new ugliest dog winner had been crowned and it's still 'hot' on the news.
As an animal lover, I just can't help but ask myself... can I love an 'ugly' dog such as that?
The defination of 'ugly' may differ from one person to another, just as with 'beauty' on beauty contests.
I have never in reality seen a really really ugly dog that I don't somehow find cute. ( ..???)
It has always been ... ugly/cute...adorable/ugly.. that kind of feeling if ever there was a defination for them.
Nothing really that I can't stand the sight of.......so far
But these dogs ..errrrr....emmm.... hhnnnnn ... I'm lost for words.
Maybe it goes with the malay saying ,
tak kenal maka tak cinta...
I'm pretty sure each dogs have their own winning personality judging from how much they are loved by their owners despite of their appearance.
They are afterall creatures of the Almighty, brought into this world as with us humans, without the option to choose .
I don't think anybody wants to be ugly...that goes for animals too I'm quite sure.
As I felt relief with the thought of how fortunate they are, I can't help but felt a little sadness of the ones that didn't get the chance in life because of the same 'curse'.
I compulate these facts plus photographs from online source.
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The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is an annual competition that crowns one dog as the Ugliest Dog in the World. Initially started as a spoof of traditional dog shows, the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest has become a very popular event to the point where the Animal Planet Network covered it for television.
The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest takes place at the Sonoma-Marin County Fair in Petaluma, California. Winners are chosen from both the Pedigree class and the Mutt class. Those winners then compete against each other to become that year’s Ugly Dog winner. Upon winning that stage, the winner goes on to the Ring of Champions competition where he/she goes up against the past winners to determine the official World’s Ugliest Dog. Current prize winnings are $500 for the Ugly Dog winner and $1000 for World’s Ugliest Dog. 2008 marked the 20th year that event has taken place.
While the Sonoma-Marin Ugly Dog Contest is considered the official and most prestigious event, many more ugly dog contests have popped up over the years across the country, most notably the Del Mar, CA, Ugliest Dog Competition, which has a 14-year history.
Winners
2011
'Yoda' selected 2011 Ugly Dog Contest winner
Yoda, a previously abandoned 14-year old Chinese Crested/chihuahua mix with a malformed nose, "short tufts of hair, protruding tongue, and long, seemingly hairless legs," won the 2011 contest.
2010
An
odd
-looking
chihuahua
called
Princess Abby has
won
the
dubious
title
of world's
ugliest
dog
2010
.The grey and white pooch - which has a curved back and legs (as well as a scrunched up left eye) won the annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest in Northern California.
2009
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2009 Winner was Pabst, a mix boxer mix owned by Miles Egstad . He ended the seven year reign held by the chinese crested breed.
I found Pabst to be the cutest winner of the past decade
by far. 2009 must have presented a particularly weak field, because I find Pabst to be not just non-ugly, but rather cute.
2008
2008’s winner was also a Chinese Crested, Jeanenne Teed’s hairless, three-legged, one-eyed
Gus.
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Rascal, the 2002 World's Ugliest Dog and Ring of Champions holder, won the World's Oldest Ugly Dog Contest in Fort Bragg, California on August 30, 2008, making him the only dog to win both top titles.
On November 10, 2008, Gus died. He was 9 years old
2007
2007 World’s Ugliest Dog was Elwood, a Chinese crested chihuahua mixed-breed dog owned by KarenQuigleyhe .He who had placed second the previous year. Rascal, who won the 2002 title, became the Ugliest Dog on the West Coast. With the loss of Archie, Rascal and Elwood are the only two dogs alive to be "Ring of Champions" World's Ugliest Dogs
2006
Scandal erupted during the 2006 World's Ugliest Dog Contest when an as yet unidentified person gained unauthorized electronic access to the contest's internet voting page and deleted 40,000 votes from then leader 'Pee Wee (Son of
Sam)' and 30,000 votes from second-place dog 'Victoria', according to fair marketing director Vicki DeArmon. To rectify the situation, fair officials decided to completely restart internet voting on May 22, 2006. The official winner, Archie, was selected by a panel of judges on June 23, 2006. Archie died July 2008
2003-2005
Sam was a blind pure-bred Chinese Crested hairless dog, and three time champion of the annual Sonoma-Marin Fair World's Ugliest Dog Contest in Northern California in 2003–2005. His ugliness gained him international fame and celebrity – his death...just short of his 15th birthday
I personally think he's the ugliest of the ugliest because just the sight of him makes you think he is evil.
****Quotes from LMNOP Blog
Sam is epic. Sam is everything. Sam looks like if an already ugly, Satan-possessed dog walked into a burning building and emerged, hours later, singed and somehow still alive, charged with new evil powers and ready to take over the world. No dog can ever be uglier than Sam, and it is no wonder this champ won for three straight years before his death in 2005. He blows the other competition away. There is no place your eyes can rest on his tiny body that doesn't ellicit sheer horror. Every time you look at him, you notice something new and disgusting: his brittle, mangled ears with their white wisps of hair; his blind, soul-deadening eyes; his feeble, ratlike tail; the wrinkled, liver-spotted skin; the teeth! The warts! I could go on. The one small mercy this dog was granted was an inability to see himself. That probably added years to his life.
Sam lived to the ripe (there's another good Sam adjective) age of 14, and I think we can all agree that his time on this earth was well spent. I'm glad the World's Ugliest Dog competition existed to give him his rightful recognition, and I only wish there were further stages of competition--Ugliest Animal, Ugliest Mammal, Ugliest Living Organism, Ugliest Anything--for him to have climbed through. I'm fairly certain he could have placed respectably at any level of competition.
Rest in peace, little guy. You were sooooo, soooooo ugly
2002
The 2002 winner and now a “Ring of Champions” holder is Rascal, owned by actor Dane Andrew.
The only living and competing Ugly dog to hold the coveted "Ring of Champions" title which makes him the current "World's Ugliest Dog".
Rascal is a very healthy 7.lb 8 years old pure bred Chinese Crested. We do NOT shave him; he is naturally and completely hairless except for his Mohawk and a little hair on his tail and feet. He is complete with ugly dog warts and freckles. Rascal has a lack of teeth, so he can keep his tongue in his mouth, and his face appears crooked at times.
2000, 2001
The 2000 and 2001 competitions were won by Nana. While the owner never disclosed the breed, she would say that it was a “Canardly” as in “you can'ardly tell,” indicating it was most likely a
mutt. Nana died later that year
